Health Consultation: Abby Street/Hickory Woods Subdivision, Buffalo, Erie County, New York. EPA Facility ID: NYSFN024229

摘要

In 2002, the City of Buffalo contracted with a firm to conduct a peer review of the health consultation. The peer review panel consisted of three independent scientists, with expertise in risk assessment, exposure assessment and toxicology. The charge to the peer reviewers was to evaluate whether the approaches used, assumptions made, public health conclusions drawn, and actions recommended are clear, scientifically defensible, and protective of human health. To facilitate that review, the NYS DOH provided the peer reviewers with additional information clarifying exposure assumptions used in the health consultation (see Appendix A). The panel met to discuss the health consultation and the public was invited to attend and provide comments to the panel during the meeting. The peer reviewers responded to or addressed many of the public comments at the peer review public meeting. The panel's findings were summarized in the 'Summary Report of the Meeting to Peer Review the NYS DOH Health Consultation for the Abby Street Residential Neighborhood'. The peer review panel concluded that the overall approaches used, assumptions made, conclusions drawn, and public health actions recommended were scientifically sound and appropriately protective given the available data. Many of the peer review comments related to clarity, including process, format, presentation, definition, but did not affect the conclusions of the 2001 Health Consultation. We also received another set of written comments on the 2001 Health Consultation. They were from faculty at the University of Buffalo's Environment and Society Institute (ESI). This health consultation is NYS DOH and ATSDR's response to comments on the 2001 Health Consultation. In writing this health consultation, we focused on the major recommendations in the Peer Review Summary Report and the summary of the comments submitted by ESI. However, we also considered the documents in their entirety as well.